Members of the Derbyshire Constabulary choir decried political correctness yesterday after the area’s chief constable severed all ties to them.
Peter Goodman, who took over the force last summer, had told the choir to accept women or face losing its 60-year association with the police service ...
I'm currently working on a theory to account for the undeniable fact that the people who now run almost everything to do with the public sector in this country (and in most other western countries) are aliens conducting a massive experiment to find out how quickly they can render potential host planets vulnerable to full-scale invasion by destroying their most advanced, successful and stable societies from within, without irreparably damaging the existing infrastructure or having to kill most of the inhabitants. I can't think how else you end up with someone like Peter Goodman running something as important as a police force.
General J. Ripper ["Dr Strangelove"] has a most plausible alternative explanation - the great communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all our precious bodily fluids by introducing fluoride into our water supplies. He cites the fact that nobody has ever seen "a dirty commie" drink a glass of water - only vodka.
Because of this he has decided to deny all women his life essence by remaining celibate and takes only distilled water or branch water with his bourbon.
If we took back control of our water industry our police would start behaving like sensible human beings again and the Met would get some proper leadership after the disasters of Blair, Howe and Dick and all the other strange appointments up and down the country in recent years [with the notable exception of South West Scotland].
The fact that the sperm count among males in the West has dropped 60% over the past four decades suggests some sinister alien force is indeed tampering with our precious bodily fluids, and could very well be using the water supply to turn us all into Guardian-reading eunuchs.
A male voice choir, by definition, has only male members. If women join it will surely contravene the Trades Description Act (or similar). Why don't the women have the common sense to start a mixed choir and hope for singers from the male voice choir to join? Most choir members that I know belong to more than one choir. Or is this just a form of male-baiting? Or can it be, in pursuing Scott's suggestion, that the Amazons centuries ago decamped to another planet and have now come back as aliens to annoy us? I know that men have begun to retaliate with those big bushy beards, but it's not enough!
Unfortunately, growing a big bushy beard doesn't necessarily indicate manliness, Helen. Apart from immigrant communities, the area of London most noted for the bushiness of its beards would appear to be Clerkenwell. I rest my case.
Exactly my point, Scott. A well trimmed beard is generally attractive, but I feel those great bushy beards are grown by men who think they have something to prove, sadly. It puts years on them; I long for the fad to be abandoned!
My local Police headquarters. Ouch! But you need to remember how close it is to Brighton.
ReplyDeleteMale voice choir is told it must let women join
ReplyDeleteThe Times newspaper, not-1-but-5 April 2018
Members of the Derbyshire Constabulary choir decried political correctness yesterday after the area’s chief constable severed all ties to them.
Peter Goodman, who took over the force last summer, had told the choir to accept women or face losing its 60-year association with the police service ...
I'm currently working on a theory to account for the undeniable fact that the people who now run almost everything to do with the public sector in this country (and in most other western countries) are aliens conducting a massive experiment to find out how quickly they can render potential host planets vulnerable to full-scale invasion by destroying their most advanced, successful and stable societies from within, without irreparably damaging the existing infrastructure or having to kill most of the inhabitants. I can't think how else you end up with someone like Peter Goodman running something as important as a police force.
DeleteNow, where was that tinfoil hat...?
Agreed, when you've ruled out all the other explanations, it has to be the impossible one.
DeleteGeneral J. Ripper ["Dr Strangelove"] has a most plausible alternative explanation - the great communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all our precious bodily fluids by introducing fluoride into our water supplies. He cites the fact that nobody has ever seen "a dirty commie" drink a glass of water - only vodka.
DeleteBecause of this he has decided to deny all women his life essence by remaining celibate and takes only distilled water or branch water with his bourbon.
If we took back control of our water industry our police would start behaving like sensible human beings again and the Met would get some proper leadership after the disasters of Blair, Howe and Dick and all the other strange appointments up and down the country in recent years [with the notable exception of South West Scotland].
Visitors from outer space? Water? Which is right? Both.
DeleteThe fact that the sperm count among males in the West has dropped 60% over the past four decades suggests some sinister alien force is indeed tampering with our precious bodily fluids, and could very well be using the water supply to turn us all into Guardian-reading eunuchs.
DeleteA male voice choir, by definition, has only male members. If women join it will surely contravene the Trades Description Act (or similar). Why don't the women have the common sense to start a mixed choir and hope for singers from the male voice choir to join? Most choir members that I know belong to more than one choir.
ReplyDeleteOr is this just a form of male-baiting?
Or can it be, in pursuing Scott's suggestion, that the Amazons centuries ago decamped to another planet and have now come back as aliens to annoy us? I know that men have begun to retaliate with those big bushy beards, but it's not enough!
Unfortunately, growing a big bushy beard doesn't necessarily indicate manliness, Helen. Apart from immigrant communities, the area of London most noted for the bushiness of its beards would appear to be Clerkenwell. I rest my case.
DeleteExactly my point, Scott. A well trimmed beard is generally attractive, but I feel those great bushy beards are grown by men who think they have something to prove, sadly. It puts years on them; I long for the fad to be abandoned!
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